"the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat."

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Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan

Jane Bowles

#Victory Quotes #Faces Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature”
“I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used”

Source : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.
“Excuses are tools of the incompetent”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013
“It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other”
“You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.”

Source : "More Than Our Beliefs" by Rabbi Irwin Kula, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.
“The love I knew was from books..”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”
“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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